Art Every Day Month - Sixth Entry

Here is my sixth entry into the Art Every Day Month Challenge:

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It's a fairy dinosaur wading through water...  What?  I blame this one on the time change.  Going to bed now...

Art Every Day Month - Fifth Entry

Here is my fifth entry into the Art Every Day Month Challenge:

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I submitted this one just under the wire.  I tend to wait to do my submission for AEDM after Izzy has gone to sleep for the night.  However, tonight, our routine took a bit longer to accomplish.  There was a lot of mommy putting baby into the crib, baby crying, mommy rocking baby back to sleep, and mommy trying to put baby back down again.  Finally, I just had to let her cry it out (it felt like eternity but in reality only lasted two minutes).  I almost allowed the promise of sleep to persuade me to push the submission off until tomorrow, but Jason helped me find my motivation to finish it tonight.  I hope you enjoy the mole digging his way into your hearts!

Art Every Day Month - Fourth Entry

Here is my fourth entry for the Art Every Day Month Challenge:

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The themes of Halloween still appear to be lingering in my head from the looks of this picture... Well, Halloween and the song "Dry Bones." (Jason sang this diddy when he saw the final product.)  Now I can't get that song out of my head.  Looks like I'll be dreaming of dancing bones tonight.

Art Every Day Month - Third Entry

Here's my third entry into the Art Every Day Month Challenge:

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The shape of this scribble reminded me of the Red Baron from Peanuts.... so that's what I created.  An homage, if you will.  I just couldn't resist.  Jason said he saw ballet shoes in the scribble.  What do you see?

Art Every Day Month - Second Entry

Here's my second entry into the Art Every Day Month Challenge:

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Another scribble turned into a nature scene.  Even when I played this "game" as a child, birds and cats often showed up in our work.... That and people with funny looking noses.  Why did I wait so long to participate in this challenge?  Having a blast...

Art Every Day Month - First Entry

I've decided to sign up for the Art Every Day Month Challenge created by Leah Piken Kolidas of Creative Every Day.  I thought this would be an excellent way to get my artistic juices revved up again.  For the entire month, I've decided to create an original black and white drawing from a scribble my husband creates.  Here's my first entry:

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The process reminded me of a game I used to play with my sister when I was younger.  We would each take turns drawing scribbles on pieces of paper and having the other person create a drawing from it.  The goal was to make sense of something that, upon first glance, was nothing.  It was fun to see the way our brains would process each scribble and turn them into creations that would often make us giggle and admire the other one's cleverness.

Though my first entry is not so "ha ha" funny, it's a start.  I think this month will be an interesting journey into the way my mind tries to decipher my husband's scribbles.  An interesting experiment into my psyche, no?

My Moon, Your Moon: Hunter Moon

The tenth installment of the My Moon, Your Moon project is up for your reading pleasure.

This one really spoke to me, being a parent myself now.  That combined with the arrival of autumn, seemed to appropriately reflect how I've been feeling lately -- feeling the need for change (and being ready for it).  Art has definitely taken a back seat while I figure out this being a momma and an artist thing; I'm still trying to find that balance.  Maybe it won't come as soon as I'd like, but I know I will figure it out eventually.  In the mean time, I've been reading these posts by Dana Barbieri, an artist and a mommy herself, to give me inspiration.

For my fellow mommies out there, artist or not, how do you find balance?

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; 

for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; 

we must die to one life before we can enter another."

- Anatole France